Catch Your Death
Ruby Redfort: Undercover agent, code-cracker and thirteen-year-old genius – there’s nothing average about her. Only this time it’s an adventure in the wild, and it’ll take all Ruby’s got just to survive…The third book in the ice-cool Ruby Redfort series, by multi-million-copy bestselling author Lauren Child.This time, tigers are roaming the streets of Twinford, and it looks like someone has deliberately released some very rare and very dangerous animals. Things are going to get wild – and Ruby is going to get badly lost in the wilderness. The question is: will she ever make it out alive? Well, as always, you wouldn’t want to bet against her…
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First published in hardback in Great Britain by HarperCollins Childrenâs Books 2013
First published in paperback by HarperCollins Childrenâs Books 2015 This electronic edition published in Great Britain by HarperCollins Childrenâs Books 2015 HarperCollins Childrenâs Books is a division of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, HarperCollins Publishers 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF
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Rave Reviews for Ruby Redfort
âRedfort is one of the best things to happen to ten-plus British fiction⦠these are modern classics.â The Times
âLauren Child has put imagination and fun back into the real worlds of childhood.â Julia Eccleshare, Guardian
âClues, gadgets, secret HQs, a heist, explosions⦠T-shirts with cool slogans and a supply of jelly doughnuts. What more could adventure-loving girls want?â Nicolette Jones, The Sunday Times
âCool, punchy, stylish.â Sun
âI like the way Ruby is not a girlie girl and has lots of adventures.â Amazon
âTotally amazing⦠a book you canât put down!â www.goodreads.com
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Contents
Copyright
The Abandoned One
An Ordinary kid
A little silver key
All as it should be
The lost perfume of Marie
The rare animals
A note on Lorelei von Leydenâs perfume code
Acknowlegments
About the Author
âSmell is one of the most powerful triggers of the human memory.
An odour is a portal to the past, instantly transporting the smeller back to some long forgotten time. The conscious mind might be unaware of the memory, but, just as smelling salts can rouse a person from a dead faint, so smell rouses the subconscious and awakens the dormant memory.â
DR DAVIDSON WALTER F MACKINTOSH PHD CBE, Ulwin University, co-writer of the highly regarded textbook, Nasal Passages
THE GIRL OPENED HER EYES AND BLINKED UP AT THE SKY. From where she lay, curled on the pine-needle floor, she could see pure blue, vivid behind a latticework of black branches. Sensing that she was alone, the girl sat up and looked around. She listened for footsteps, voices, but heard no human sound at all, just the hot lazy birds and insects buzzing and zithering. The picnic things were still laid out and a chain of ants was busy deconstructing the leftovers. She picked up the novel which lay where her father had sat, The Abandoned One â A Thriller, and she began to read.
But an hour later and almost halfway through, her parents still had not returned. Had there been some emergency? Was her father looking for help? Her mother waving at passing planes? Had they both been devoured by bears or some other wild thing â some terrible beast that lurked in the faraway forest? Or had they simply forgotten her, left her here? Her four-year-old imagination began to run wild, egged on by the pages of the book.
She calmed herself, took deep breaths, inhaling the forest aroma. The scent of the pine was a comfort, reassuring and familiar, and her common sense drifted back to her. She was aware that the most likely explanation was probably the actual one: her parents had gone to the river to fetch water and had got sidetracked.
